Accidental = Unique: A Metaphysical Insight from Instancology

Claim:

In the Macro World—everything that exists within time and space—every instance is accidental, and therefore unique.

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Reasoning:

1. Contingency of the Macro World

All beings in the Macro World arise under conditions of movement, time, and space. Their appearance is accidental, meaning not determined by necessity.

2. Whole Instance Principle

According to Instancology, nothing in the Macro World emerges as a sum of parts. Each being appears as a whole instance, instantiated from the Absolute Absolute (AA), not constructed.

3. Non-Reproducibility

Because the instance is a whole—not a repeatable pattern or product of relation—it cannot be duplicated, even under identical conditions.

4. Therefore:

> What appears accidentally in the Macro World is not generic—it is paradigmatically unique.

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Implication:

This means that every tree, river, cloud, animal, or human—down to each momentary occurrence—is unrepeatable. Even so-called “ordinary things” are one-time wholes.

The world is not made of repeatable types, but of singular instantiations, each bearing its own wholeness. To repeat an instance would require repeating its instantiation from AA—which is metaphysically impossible.

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Challenge for Reflection:

If everything we encounter is both accidental and unique, what does that mean for science, ethics, art, and even personal identity?

Is the world we think of as made of patterns actually made of paradigmatic, singular appearances?